Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be... →
John Ruskin
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as... →
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my... →
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we... →
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.